Lebanon enters a partial blockade to counter infections; The Berlin authorities raise questions about the schooling of a pandemic; The Spanish minister says that “things are not going well”; Irish minister resigns for lock violation
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Teams will be removed from the Tour de France if two cyclists or members show symptoms or test positive for Covid-19 according to the strict protocols of the race organizers.
However, the race, which begins in Nice on 28 August, will continue even if a case of coronavirus is shown in the platoon, according to an 18-page document shared with this week.
“If two or more people on the same team have very suspicious symptoms or have tested positive for covid-19, the team in question will be expelled from the Tour de France,” says the document, which he received through the VeloNews online cycling page.
“Your riders will not be allowed to start the Tour de France (or the next stage) and the team will be stripped of their accreditation.”
You can read my colleague Sean Ingle’s full one here:
Coronavirus cases in India are approaching 3 million, putting pressure on the government to avoid large gatherings this weekend as Mumbai celebrates the Hindu god with elephant head Ganesh.
For the maximum of West India, especially the country’s monetary capital, Ganesh Chaturthi marks the start of an 11-day festival marked through giant public celebrations.
Social media has been flooded with photographs of shoppers at the markets to buy flowers and sweets, but the Ganesh festival is expected to be quieter this year.
“You can see that everyone’s outlets are full of idols. No one comes to buy anything,” Ramdas Ghodekar told Reuters, who sells Ganesh idols in central Mumbai.
India has reported 68,898 new instances of Covid-19 in the last 24 hours, the third consecutive accumulation above 60,000, bringing the total to 2.91 million, the third worst in the world after the United States and Brazil. Deaths increased from 983 to 54,849.
Cases have stabilized in Mumbai, which now averages 1,000 per day and recorded more than 120,000 in total, but the strict government has made the festival season, which begins this month, boring.
“People are buying less expensive idols and cutting their budgets because there have been pay cuts and loss of tasks. Last year I sold all the idols in my store, this year I’m going to sell some of them,” said idol creator Nandkumar Patil. .
Lebanon imposed a partial blockade for two weeks to counter coronavirus infections, which have intensified since the catastrophic explosion in Beirut’s harbor.
The spread of Covid-19 exacerbates unrest in the country, still recovering from the August 4 explosion that killed at least 179 other people and injured 6,000, and a currency crisis that has devastated the economy since last October.
On Thursday, Lebanon recorded its number of new coronavirus infections in 24 hours, with 613 new cases. Doctors say the infections spread as a result of the explosion, with hospitals flooded with casualties.
Iman Shankiti, the World Health Organization in Lebanon, told voice of Lebanon radio:
Before the explosion, the total number of instances from 5,000 to 6,000 now reached 10,000 or more.
In the two weeks, the total is equivalent to everything from February to the day of the explosion.
Partial closure, which includes a curfew from 6 p.m. until 6 a.m., clears debris, maintenance and in neighborhoods demolished by the explosion.
Doctors at the top public hospitals in Kenya’s capital went on strike Friday to protest delays in payment and lack of equipment when treating patients suspected of having Covid-19.
The strike began on Friday, said Thuranira Kaugiria, general secretary of the Kenyan Doctors’ Pharmacists and Dentists Union.
He said 320 doctors hired through the Nairobi County government were participating in the strike because they had insufficient fitness insurance, poor appliances and very few isolation rooms to treat coronavirus patients.
The strike will not pass through Nairobi’s personal and public hospitals through the national government.
The most recent knowledge screen 31441 showed cases of coronavirus in Kenya, 532 deaths and 18157 recoveries of 411630 tests performed to date. Most of the cases shown occurred in the capital.
Doctors in Kenya have posted images on Twitter of what they say is an insufficient government-provided device, adding porous adjustments designed to oppose dust that would not prevent the spread of the virus.
Winemakers in the French champagne region are harvesting an exceptional harvest of grapes with a bitter aftertaste, as the drop in demand for champagne through the pandemic means that some will be wasted.
“We make the wine of happiness, and when other people are sad, like the lockout, sales of champagne tend to collapse,” said Vincent Leglantier, 34, winemaker from Bethon, northeastEr France.
In the Brun de Neuville winery collective, to which Leglantier belongs, groups of harvesters move along the rows of vineyards, selling grapes by hand. Most are Eastern European migrant workers who come in each and every harvest season.
But this year, sales dropped dramatically because weddings and parties were canceled around the world.
In response, French champagne manufacturers this month limited the amount of grapes they ship for wine processing to avoid reducing the value and exclusivity of the beverage.
But the roof, which restricts the amount of grapes that can be harvested from one hectare to 8,000 kg, means that anything that exceeds that figure will have to be left to rot.
“You can simply say that this is the most productive bad business we’ve ever done,” Damien Champy, director of the Brun wine cooperative in Neuville, said, about the quota while in the cellar where the champagne bottles are left to ripen.
Singapore must reopen its borders to visitors to New Zealand and Brunei next month, in its first steps towards resumption of recreation since it closed its borders to control the Covid-19 epidemics.
The city-state, which lately only allows official and commercial business in certain countries, also said it would allow academics abroad to examine whether distance learning is not possible.
The new measures will take effect on 1 September with restrictions, the Ministry of Health said.
Singapore sealed its borders in March and was then sentenced to a two-month blockade amid large outbreaks in the overcrowded dormitories of migrant workers.
Once in the midst of the Covid-19 outbreak in the United States, New York was monitored to involve the virus when it reopened, but could face an increase in cases in the fall, public fitness experts warned.
The good fortune to make closure measures more flexible in the city is due to the high rates of compliance with the rules against coronavirus and a really broad immunity among the general population due to the severity of the outbreak in the spring, city experts told Reuters.
“There was a lineup in New York with the state government, the fitness care formula, and the media on what to do, that is, block everything,” said Mark Jarrett, director of quality at Northwell Health. “Not everyone liked the lock, but it was well accepted.”
He added that public compliance contrasts with other parts of the United States, where political opposition to masking and blocking is more widespread.
The contagion rate also declined further because the initial epidemic left between 25% and 50% of New Yorkers with some immunity point, said Mara Lima, associate dean of studies at the City University of New York School of Medicine.
But New York may see an increase in cases where schools reopen and the bloodless weather encourages more people to enter, experts said.
“The challenge is the reopening of schools, recreating that density again,” which had been reduced due to social remoteness, said Troy Tassier, a professor of economics at Fordham University who specializes in epidemiology.
After peaking in early April with an average of seven days of more than 5,000 instances consistent with the day, New York City has reduced its number of instances to an average of less than 200, according to city data.
The consistent percentage of other people examined who were found to have the virus was higher, from about 70% at the end of March to less than 1%, and showed that deaths increased from more than 500 according to April to less than a single figure.
Here’s a little more about the Irish Agriculture Minister’s resignation after his involvement in a social in which police are investigating an alleged violation of Covid-19 regulations.
Dara Calleary among more than 80 visitors at a dinner at the hotel offered by the Irish Parliament’s golf corporation the night after he and his closet colleagues particularly tightened national restrictions in an attempt to slow the outbreak of infections.
Ireland has maintained some of Europe’s strictest anti-Covid controls, while the government has been criticized for the new restrictions, adding the restriction of indoor meetings to six other people, which have been noted as mis-communicated and contradictory.
Other figures, such as EU Trade Commissioner Phil Hogan, attended the dinner, prompting a wave of public anger.
Calleary told her radio station, Midwest Radio:
I need EveryoneArray … I have interfered with the national effort to combat Covid.
I’ve let other people down, I’ve a lot of other people, I have a lot of other people who have had to make very difficult calls for the last six months.
The Taoiseach, Michael Martin, accepted his resignation, saying that Calleary had made the right resolution for the country and that the occasion has never been given.
South Korea’s efforts to engage a new Covid-19 epidemic have been confusing through a political struggle between The administration of President Moon Jae-in and some of its fiercest critics.
Sarang Jeil Church is the organization of the moment in the midst of a primary coronavirus outbreak in the country.
The government accused the church of obstruction by failing to provide complete lists of its members and by spreading fake news that hampered anti-Covid efforts, while church members claimed to be victims of a witch hunt for political reasons.
After the first infections were reported among church members on August 12, the government said the organization had disobeyed instructions for social estrangement, with the church leader and others in a large demonstration against the moon in central Seoul on August 15.
Speaking at the rally, the Rev. Jun Kwang-hun said Moon had “terrorized our church with the Wuhan virus.” Jun, a critic of the frank government, then tested positive for the virus.
On Thursday, at least 739 church members tested positive, of the 3,415 analyzed, according to the Korean Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Myanmar has blocked the conflict-ravaged capital of Rakhine State after an outbreak of a strain of coronavirus that authorities say was more contagious than was noticed in the country in the past.
Since Monday, 19 others have tested positive for the virus in the western region, fitness officials, the first local transmission in Myanmar in months, showed Friday, bringing the total number of cases to 409.
Myat Htut Nyunt, deputy director of Myanmar’s medical studies department, said the type of virus is the same as a mutation detected this week in Malaysia, which was discovered in Europe, North America and parts of Asia and is believed to be more contagious.
“So we’d like to tell other people that this type of virus has a faster transmission rate,” Nyunt said.
The vast majority of recent cases have occurred in the city of Sittwe, where the government has issued an order to stay at home and impose a curfew. Domestic airlines have suspended between Sittwe and Yangon’s advertising capital.
Tens of thousands more people live in IDP camps in Rakhine due to clashes between government troops and ethnic insurgents.
Sittwe hosts camps where some 100,000 Rohingya Muslims have been confined since an outbreak of violence in 2012.
This is Amy Walker, who is succeeding my colleague Archie Bland. I will advise you on the main global advances in coronavirus over the next few hours.